Bammer wrote:I’m not sure I agree with trag that hard mode makes this game “easier” … maybe it does. But I will say, it prevents you from known wrong guesses (to confirm/eliminate other letters) and therefore increases your chance of not running out of attempts.
But this is what makes it easier. Narrows my focus. Otherwise I tend to push it to the fifth or sixth guess.
Wordle 221 3/6*
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Turns out "hard mode" is the way I've played all along. Using the letters you've already correctly guessed seems like common sense to me. It wasn't until a stupid NPR think piece I read this morning that it occured to me that some people might not do that.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
Bammer wrote:I’m not sure I agree with trag that hard mode makes this game “easier” … maybe it does. But I will say, it prevents you from known wrong guesses (to confirm/eliminate other letters) and therefore increases your chance of not running out of attempts.
But this is what makes it easier. Narrows my focus. Otherwise I tend to push it to the fifth or sixth guess.
Wordle 221 3/6*
NYNNN
MYYNN
YYYYY
Turns out "hard mode" is the way I've played all along. Using the letters you've already correctly guessed seems like common sense to me. It wasn't until a stupid NPR think piece I read this morning that it occured to me that some people might not do that.
Yeah same here. Played on hard mode even before I knew it existed.
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Bammer wrote:I’m not sure I agree with trag that hard mode makes this game “easier” … maybe it does. But I will say, it prevents you from known wrong guesses (to confirm/eliminate other letters) and therefore increases your chance of not running out of attempts.
But this is what makes it easier. Narrows my focus. Otherwise I tend to push it to the fifth or sixth guess.
Wordle 221 3/6*
NYNNN
MYYNN
YYYYY
Turns out "hard mode" is the way I've played all along. Using the letters you've already correctly guessed seems like common sense to me. It wasn't until a stupid NPR think piece I read this morning that it occured to me that some people might not do that.
None of this makes sense to me. Do you have a link to that article?
Bammer wrote:I’m not sure I agree with trag that hard mode makes this game “easier” … maybe it does. But I will say, it prevents you from known wrong guesses (to confirm/eliminate other letters) and therefore increases your chance of not running out of attempts.
But this is what makes it easier. Narrows my focus. Otherwise I tend to push it to the fifth or sixth guess.
Wordle 221 3/6*
NYNNN
MYYNN
YYYYY
Turns out "hard mode" is the way I've played all along. Using the letters you've already correctly guessed seems like common sense to me. It wasn't until a stupid NPR think piece I read this morning that it occured to me that some people might not do that.
None of this makes sense to me. Do you have a link to that article?
My think piece would be about how it owes its immense popularity to its piecemeal delivery system; you cannot just keep playing to quench your thirst; no, you have to wait until tomorrow to play again, just salivating all over the place, thinking about how you did in the last one and strategizing for the next one.
Jorge wrote:I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
Jorge wrote:I remember I was in Miami when it happened. I was posting from the balcony of my apartment overlooking the beach. And I was having an argument with Adamdude.
